Heteroceruiis Lc])ido})teru front New Zealand. oUl 



49. Pachycneinla nsitata, u. sji. (No. (>7). 



Very similar to P. hijtpvcastanaria, of Europe, the same 

 colours ; primaries grey with a slight lilacine "gloss ; crossed by 

 one or two ill- defined dusky subbasal lines ; two slightly diver- 

 gent and nearly central lines, the outer one sigmoidal; a pale 

 zigzag line edged on both sides with blackish, limiting the ex- 

 ternal border which is dusky ; discocellulars dusky; secondaries 

 sericeous whity-brown irrorated with grey on external border; 

 body grey; under surface sericeous grey. Expanse of wings 1 

 inch 3 lines. 



Otago. 



LARENTIID.E. 



50. Larcntla ^ punctilineata (No. 40). 



Larentta piinctUineata, Walker, Lep. llet. xxiv, p. 1202, 

 u. 7'J (18G2). 

 Otago. 



51. Lai'entia ? falcata, u. sp. (No. 87). 



Allied to L. jivnetilineata (which it much resembles in colour 

 and markings), but larger and with distinctly falcate primaries; 

 primaries reddish-broAvn, with the base and a broad central belt 

 dark brown traversed by blackish lines and margined by white 

 dots ; a black' discocellular dot; external border blackish, dif- 

 fused; two or three Avhitish subapical dots; secondaries silvery- 

 grey with a dai'ker waved central belt formed of parallel dark 

 grey lines, dotted with black upon the alidominal margin, white 

 bordered; a submarginal series of white-bordered grey spots; a 

 marginal series of blackish dots in pairs; fringe pale reddish- 

 brown; abdomen with dorsal pairs of black dashes on each seg- 

 ment ; 25i"iniaries below grey with darker white-bordered central 

 lielt ; costa cream-coloured between the markings ; a zigzag 

 white-bordered subapical dusky stria; secondaries whitish with 

 a broad irregular central belt formed by two blackish limiting 

 lines and two grey intermediate lines; the outer black line dis- 

 tinctly undulated ; a A^ery ill-defined blackish speckled sub- 

 marginal band; body below testaceous. Expanse of wings 1 

 inch ?) lin(>s. 



Otngo. 



This ar.d the other forms with bilcatc ]irimnri(!s referred to 

 Lairt/tid, Corcmia, (^'aiiiptdijniinina and CiiUtrla will proliably 



